i have always been eager to attend one of your poetry reading sessions,never been able to make it on time…please if it is possible do let me know in advance when the next poetry reading session will be.

Mithun – Some events are planned way in advance, and some happen on short notice. I keep this blog/Twitter/FB updated accordingly, as and when I know myself (yet never so far in advance that people will forget). A heads-up – my next event is on Nov 27 in Chennai. Will post about it next week.

Sharanya Manivannan

My first book of poems was Witchcraft (Bullfighter Books, 2008). Between 2008 and 2011, I wrote a column called "The Venus Flytrap" for The New Indian Express. I'm working on two collections of poetry (Cadaver Exquisito and Bulletproof Offering), a collection of short fiction (The High Priestess Never Marries) and a novel (Constellation of Scars). I received the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008-2009 and a 2012 Elle Fiction Award, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.

These are the things I have done or hope to do.

In the meantime, pieces of my poetry and fiction appear frequently enough to keep me happy, in places including Prairie Schooner, Drunken Boat, Wasafiri, Hobart, The Nervous Breakdown, Pratilipi and Superstition Review; and anthologies from Bloodaxe Books, Tranquebar Press and Sundress Publications. My non-fiction has appeared in places like National Geographic Traveller, The Caravan, Motherland and Killing The Buddha. On this blog you'll find links to these as they are published, unedited versions of my writing that appears in newspapers and magazines... and nowhere near as much chaos, miscellany and whimsy as life actually contains. :) You can find some of that, though, on my Tumblr.